Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering The University of Hong Kong Page 1 IMWS-AMP 2015 Manipulating Electromagnetic Local Density of States by Graphene Plasmonics Presenter: Wei E.I. Sha Electromagnetics and Optics Lab Dept. of EEE, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Personal Website: Collaborators ： Dr. Yongpin Chen, University of Electronic Science and Technology Prof. Jun Hu, University of Electronic Science and Technology Prof. Li Jun Jiang, The University of Hong Kong

Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering The University of Hong Kong Page 2 IMWS-AMP 2015 OUTLINE  1. Significance and History  2. Quantum Electrodynamics  3. Spontaneous Emission, Local Density of States, and Green’s Tensor  4. Graphene Plasmonics to Control the Local Density of States  5. Conclusion

Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering The University of Hong Kong Page 3 IMWS-AMP 2015 WHY SPONTANEOUS EMISSION (DECAY) IS IMPORTANT? C Walther et al. Science 327, (2010) LED (photonic crystal cavity)Laser (metallic microcavity) M. Francardi et al. Appl. Phys. Lett. 93, (2008) Purcell factor Control of spontaneously emitted light lies at the heart of quantum optics. It is essential for diverse applications ranging from lasers, light-emitting diodes, solar cells, and quantum information.

Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering The University of Hong Kong Page 4 IMWS-AMP 2015 HISTORY OF SPONTANEOUS EMISSION RATE Classical View: Boltzmann statistics proportion to photon intensity spontaneous emission: an exited atom/molecule decay to the ground state and emits a photon

Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering The University of Hong Kong Page 5 IMWS-AMP 2015 THREE REGIMES IN OPTICS classical optics ray physics D>>λ nano-optics wave physics D~λ quantum optics quantum physics D<<λ At quantum regimes, the object size (<10 nm) is quite small compared to wavelength. In this situation, semi-classical Maxwell-Schrödinger system is required to describe the EM—particle interaction. Moreover, if the number of photons is also quite small, Maxwell’s equations should be quantized.

Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering The University of Hong Kong Page 6 IMWS-AMP 2015 A MODERN INTERPRETATION: QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS (1) Quantized form of Maxwell Equations Coulomb gauge Quantized Hamiltonian eigenmodes non-interaction part interaction part wave function e: excited state of atom; g: ground state of atom; 0: no photon; 1: one photon perturbation method could solve it! wave-particle duality

Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering The University of Hong Kong Page 7 IMWS-AMP 2015 A MODERN INTERPRETATION: QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS (2) Spontaneous emission rate by Fermi golden rule Mode expansion of dyadic green’s function Representation by Green’s tensor Electromagnetic Local density of state (EMLDOS) Purcell factor

Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering The University of Hong Kong Page 8 IMWS-AMP 2015 GRAPHENE Carbon NanotubesFullerences (C 60 ) Graphite Graphene Physics World 19, 33 (2006)  Atomic thickness;  High optical transmittance and conductivity;  Dynamically modify chemical potentials through tuning the gate voltage Fabrication

Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering The University of Hong Kong Page 9 IMWS-AMP 2015 FORMULATIONS FOR GRAPHENE PERMITTIVITY  Surface conductivity of Graphene given by Kubo formula Intraband Relaxation (plasmonic effect) Interband Transition (Be neglectable at THz frequencies) ω-Frequency, µ c -Chemical potential, Γ-Carrier scattering rate and T- Temperature; Where Fermi-Dirac distribution f d is Converts the surface conductivity to volume conductivity in modeling;

Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering The University of Hong Kong Page 10 IMWS-AMP 2015 WHEN GRAPHENE IS APPLIED TO CONTROL SPONTANEOUS EMISSION Quantum Electrodynamics Computational Electromagnetics Spontaneous Emission Numerical Green’s Function Low-Dimensional Materials Electrically Tunable Active Materials

Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering The University of Hong Kong Page 11 IMWS-AMP 2015 GRAPHENE VS METAL FOR CONTROLLING SPONTANEOUS EMISSION tunable by chemical potential sensitive to positionsensitive to polarization much larger enhancement than metals

Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering The University of Hong Kong Page 12 IMWS-AMP 2015 SPONTANEOUS EMISSION IN COMPLEX MULTILAYER NANOSTRUCTURE split ring only split ring + graphene equivalent principle (PMCHWT) + multilayer Green’s function

Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering The University of Hong Kong Page 13 IMWS-AMP 2015 PUBLICATIONS 1.Pengfei Qiao, Wei E.I. Sha, Wallace C.H. Choy, and Weng Cho Chew, “Systematic Study of Spontaneous Emission in a Two-Dimensional Arbitrary Inhomogeneous Environment,” APS, Physical Review A, vol. 83, no. 4, pp , Feb Yongpin P. Chen, Wei E.I. Sha, Wallace C.H. Choy, Li Jun Jiang, and Weng Cho Chew, “Study on Spontaneous Emission in Complex Multilayered Plasmonic System via Surface Integral Equation Approach with Layered Medium Green’s Function,” OSA, Optics Express, vol. 20, no. 18, pp , Aug Yongpin P. Chen, Wei E.I. Sha, Li Jun Jiang, and Jun Hu, “Graphene Plasmonics for Tuning Photon Decay Rate near Metallic Split-Ring Resonator in a Multilayered Substrate,” OSA, Optics Express, vol. 23, no. 3, pp , Feb Weng Cho Chew, Wei E. I. Sha, and Qi I. Dai, “Green’s Dyadic, Spectral Function, Local Density of States, and Fluctuation Dissipation Theorem,”

Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering The University of Hong Kong Page 14 IMWS-AMP 2015 CONCLUSION  1. Graphene offers several flexible tuning routes for manipulating EMLDOS, including tunable chemical potential and the emitter’s position and polarization. It shows broadband enhancements of EMLOS compared to metal materials.  2. We study spontaneous emission rate of a quantum emitter near a metallic split- ring resonator, which is embedded in a multilayered substrate incorporating a graphene layer. This design enables a mutual interaction between graphene plasmonics and metallic plasmonics. The boundary element method with a multilayered medium Green’s function is adopted in the numerical simulation.  3. Strong plasmonic coupling with a switch on-off feature was observed, which is helpful to dynamically manipulate spontaneous emission rate in complex optical devices.

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